A Dividend A Day keeps the doctor Away: a True Story

Thirty Four Years ago my wife and I were beginning our family in a newly bought home on Grand Ave in Mpls....and our new neighbors were Bill and Minnie....in their eighties...it was a neighborhood of stucco homes...built after the war...all one by one looking a lot like each other...with the expansion on top...two bedrooms down....and just after the birth of our first child...Bill had a habit of coming over and checking on her...he thought she was the most beautiful child he had ever seen...and yess..we agreed...but I digress..every day bill went on a walk around the block and walked to the local post office....I wondered why he seemed so upbeat each day...my other neighbor, Mort, mentioned that Bill and Minnie had been married for 60 years, and had both worked for the same company, and had invested a lot in company stock, and other stock too, and he had arranged to have a stock dividend every day of the week....and as Mort saw it, Bill could live "forever."...Immediately...I liked the concept...anyway...

Years later, when I worked for an investment firm, E.F. Hutton, there was a program that identified stocks for each day of the month, so that if a person wanted a dividend each day, one could know the stocks to buy...and the idea of each day, getting a little income in that would add sparkle to ones day, outside of just one employer...wow...what a wonderful concept...

Best for Your Child

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What's Best for
Your Child
Love
Faith
Hope
More Things
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Because
All that is
Priceless
is
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A bit about "Superman"

I always loved the Superman movies...and yes the comic books too....and it seems that all the time...Superman would get himself in trouble when he was doing good, or courting his girl...and the evil forces would find the kryptonite that was his weakness and put Superman in a weak spot....but then Superman would fly off to his home planet...meet with his family so to speak...regroup and then go back and save the world, and yes Lois Lane too...I like this theme...when I was a young man living with my grandmother in St. Paul...after venturing off to live in an apartment....I just called and said, "Nana I need to come home for a bit...." she just said..." I will leave the light on for you." So---going home...going to a warm place far from the frozen tundra...regrouping one's strength and then proceeding on .....that is the plan...and read those old Superman comics...what a role model they were.

The Bourne Identity and You

One of my favorite movies is "The Bourne Identity."....yes it has non stop action that can keep me awake....but besides...there is a favorite scene, where Jason Bourne says to his girlfriend, "I don't know who I am"....she replies.."Just figure it out....we will just figure it out...."....and then she stands with him in his quest to find out what has happened to him, and what his life means for a future....As an older guy, I find that theme attractive...that we do not know exactly what the end will be, but need to search each day for what the mission might be today...now...